24 DECEMBER 1836, Page 10

The first edition of last week's Spectator contained an advertise-

ment which would never have been inserted with the knowledge of the Editor. It exhorted the holders of bank-notes to apply for gold, on the assurance that, in consequence of the continued demand for bul- lion from the United States, sovereigns would be purchased by the Bank at a large premium, as guineas were during the war. The mis- chievous tendency of this advice being evident to us, we took the ear- liest opportunity of removing the advertisement, and substituting a notice to that effect, in the second edition of the paper.